Hi Rick, I believe that the Interactive Queue Management feature proposal does in fact encompass the feature that you are requesting.
It does work slightly differently, though. Whereas you are suggesting that you want to add a processor to the graph, the Queue Management feature would mean that there is no need to add that processor. Instead, you could just click on any connection/queue on the graph at any time and view the FlowFiles that are currently in that queue. From there, you would be able to click on any of those FlowFiles and view the FlowFile attributes and FlowFile content. This would then provide the real-time inspection capability that you are proposing, while the Provenance interface would expose the same type of information for historically processed data. Is there more to this Inspection concept that you are proposing that I am missing? In terms of feature proposals, you can submit a JIRA ticket at [1], or you can just send e-mails to the alias as you did this time, so that the ideas can be discussed further. Thanks! -Mark [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI ---------------------------------------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: NiFi Inspector > Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 16:55:48 +0000 > > Ok, Joe. Glad to help. > > Two questions: > > 1. If I want to add the "Inspector" idea to the list of enhancement ideas, > how would I go about it? It appears that the "Interactive Queue Management" > items is quite broad and all-encompassing, perhaps adding the more focused > ideas around the Inspector would help to crisp things up a bit. > > 2. What is the normal process for submitting suggestions? > > Thanks > Rick > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Witt [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2015 11:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: NiFi Inspector > > Totally on the same page Rick. > > See here [1] for a listing of all our current feature proposals and here [2] > for the one specific to what you just mentioned. Let us know if you think we > should add more to that. It is awesome you're already at that point to be > thinking of things like that. Keep the feedback and ideas coming! > > Thanks > Joe > > [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/NiFi+Feature+Proposals > [2] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Interactive+Queue+Management > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Rick Braddy <[email protected]> wrote: >> As I'm ramping up on NiFi and debugging more complex apps it's become >> apparent that a more convenient way to inspect FlowFile streams is needed. >> >> I would propose a new FlowFile Inspector processor that can be inserted into >> a flow to capture FlowFiles and display as a list in the UI directly, then >> when click on FlowFile in the list opens up new "inspection" window to see >> attributes and content. >> >> I realize one can use the Provenance reports to do some of this but it's far >> from real time. >> >> Without an Inspector capability flows are far too opaque. >> >> Hope this suggestion is helpful. >> >> Rick >> >>
